Project reports
The Cap Anamur project reports describe the work of our teams on site, provide insights and depict current developments in the aid project.
Afghan women in particular are concerned about their rights
Afghan women had gained some progress in the last 20 years, such as the right to schooling or vocational training or to attend universities. They are very worried that with the strengthening of the Taliban, these opportunities will no longer be open to them in the future.
Cap Anamur has been training midwives since 2010 and nurses since 2012.
Preferably women and men from rural regions of Afghanistan take part in the training. After completing their training, the nurses then go back to their home villages to improve medical care there.
Cap Anamur supports a tutoring project for Afghan students
Since 2018, we have also been supporting school education for Afghan students with a free tutoring project. This is because boys and girls who do not graduate on the first try can only retake the final exam by taking costly exam courses.
The example of Fayze, a student from the project
Fayze passed her high school graduation with the help of our free tutoring project and was also well prepared for the university entrance exam through this project. The threat of the Taliban taking power is also a tragedy for the 19-year-old. She is now in her first semester of business studies in Herat. She is firmly convinced that she was only able to pass the university entrance exam because she was well prepared for it thanks to half a year of intensive exam preparation in our tutoring project. ” I could not have afforded private lessons. We are 5 siblings and only my father earns money, but he also suffers from intervertebral disc and often can’t work because of the pain.”
Fayze has made it to university with a lot of hard work and effort. Every day she drives an hour in the dust and heat from her small mud house to the university and back in the afternoon. At home, numerous household chores await her before she can go out in the evening, study a bit and prepare for the next day. “What will I do if the Taliban, who are known for their hostility to education, forbid women from going to college?” she asks anxiously. She also fears being forced into a marriage, as was often the case 20 years ago. At that time, girls were married off at a very young age so that no Taliban could lay claim to them, because a refusal would often have ended fatally for the head of the family or the girl would have been the victim of kidnapping and forced marriage.
Her father is very proud of Fayze, but he also still has the conditions of 20 years ago in his mind: “I would also like to believe, like the West, that the Taliban have evolved, but how should this evolution have taken place? Have they attended schools or universities in the last 20 years, or have they allowed their daughters and wives to do so?” says her father.
And with that, he addresses what many people in Afghanistan fear. With an advance and increase in power of the Taliban, there will be a return to the way life used to be. And these circumstances include losses of human rights – especially women’s rights.
Students in our nursing course are also very uncertain about whether and under what difficult conditions they will be able to complete their training.
The sense and nonsense of the NATO mission and the withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan have been the subject of much discussion in recent weeks. One of the greatest tragedies, namely that soon no humanitarian aid, no NGO project will reach the civilian population; since even before the Western military, many aid organizations were forced to leave the country and its inhabitants to their tragic fate, is rather too little addressed.